Tea storage?

I have 4 different kinds of tea and I’m storing them in air-tight glass jars (tea looks really cool in them). I’m trying to find a place to put all of my tea stuff. I have a window sill that has shelves in it, would they be ok on those shelves? I hear tea should stay faaaar away from sun but i don’t know if that applies to it when they’re in air tight containers?

Light, sunlight especially, is sadly an enemy of tea, no matter how tightly sealed. It’s a shame too, because some tea is so pretty you just want to display it!

Supposedly you can get a certain kind of glass or plastic that shields the contents from UV rays, making it apparently safe for tea-display, but personally I’ve always been a bit too skeptical to try it. If anyone has more info/science on this matter, I’d love to hear it.

Adagio do have a kind of glass that they say protect from UV light http://www.adagio.com/teaware/glass_jar.html maybe someone here have tried them because i would really like to know if they work or not they say it made of Borosilicate which seem to be use a lot in Uv protected jar but i’m like you and kinda skeptical